The New Dark Age

Ángeles Maestro

Known US bioweapons labs in Africa

On Wednesday, August 14, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, on behalf of WHO, declared an “international public health emergency” due to monkeypox.

He cited the existence in several African countries of 40,000 cases and 1,456 deaths from this cause since 2022. He called for the governments of different countries around the world to equip themselves with large doses of vaccine to be produced against this new plague.

First, it should be said that this is not a serious disease. The symptoms are general malaise, fever, headache and rashes, small blisters. As in other infectious diseases, the likelihood of dying from it is limited to people previously very weakened from other causes or with significant immunological deficiencies.

Second, it is necessary to put into context the 1,456 deaths that occurred in Africa in the past two years, comparing them with the 3 million children under 5 who die each year on that continent from malnutrition or the 4,000 children who die each day, according to Unicef, from infectious diseases resulting from lack of clean water. If it were really about protecting health and human life, what should be WHO’s priorities and “emergencies”?

It must also be added that all these child deaths occur on a continent with enormous natural wealth, whose raw materials are exploited by the multinational corporations of the United States and the European Union, whose governments promote coups or the assassination of leaders who seek to put limits on the plunder. I refresh my memory by recalling Thomas Sankara or Patrice Lumumba, among many.

Any awakened mind would ask: How is it possible for WHO to declare an international public health emergency for a disease with such a low mortality rate and occurring on a continent with such dire health conditions, in the 21st century, that would make any international leader who knew an ounce of shame blush?

The most immediate technical answer is this: in 2009, during the H1N1 influenza pandemic, the requirements for declaring a pandemic were changed, so the need for the disease to cause high mortality disappeared.

The root causes could be related to surprising facts, not strictly health-related, which I list for reflection only:

Wolfgang Wodarg, a German pulmonologist and SPD deputy, denounced in January 2010, as chairman of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Health Committee of the Council of Europe, that the WHO Expert Committee on the H1N1 influenza pandemic, declared the previous year, had been bribed by multinational pharmaceutical companies marketing vaccines.

It was precisely the declaration of an international pandemic and the panic unleashed in the media that prompted governments to purchase millions of doses, guaranteeing pharmaceutical companies huge profits.

This same doctor and prominent political figures have recently stated that what is diagnosed as monkeypox is, in many cases, Herpes Zoster, a disease with symptoms very similar to one of the most frequent adverse effects of anti-Covid vaccines.

Tedros, director-general of WHO, in his speech before the Davos Economic Forum earlier this year, warned of the imminent arrival of another pandemic, which he called “disease X,” that would be “twenty times more deadly than Covid” although still unknown at the time, but for which vaccines would already be in the pipeline.

As is well known but little published, starting in the 1980s, WHO stopped being funded primarily by member states and began to be 80% funded by large multinational pharmaceutical companies and private foundations with interests in vaccine production.

If you want to learn more about the ability of big pharmaceutical companies to corrupt governments and health care, read John le Carré’s magnificent novel The Constant Gardener or watch Fernando Meirelles’ excellent 2005 film The Conspiracy, based on the novel in question.

Ángeles Maestro is a medical doctor, Senior Technician of Spanish Public Health. Article written for the Madrid daily NHU Lavapiés, La Latina and Embajadores.

The United States operates more than 200 military biological laboratories across the world. More than 30 have been exposed. Many are hidden in unknown places. Do these laboratories develop biological and chemical weapons? Or use lethal viruses and bacteria? What’s the true purpose of these biological laboratories?